International
Lung
Ultrasound
Symposium

Libertario Demi received his BS and MS degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and his PhD degree in applied physics from the Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) in 2013. After a post doctorate period at the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands), he worked as consultant for TMC Science & Technology (Belgium), as research scientist for IMEC (Belgium), as well as visiting scholar at Twente University (the Netherlands) and visiting professor at Stanford University (USA). In 2018, he joined the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (Italy) as an Assistant Professor. In the same year, he founded ULTRa (Ultrasound Lab Trento). Since 2021 he is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering within the same Department. His research has brought significant advances to the understanding of the interaction between ultrasound waves and lung tissue as well as on the formation mechanisms of lung ultrasound (LUS) imaging artifacts through numerical, experimental, and clinical studies. Seminal work is in the application of quantitative lung ultrasound spectroscopy for the characterization and classification of lung tissue alterations. Since 2020 he had made major contributions to the clinical application of LUS to COVID-19 patients, by leading the Italian Covid-19 Lung Ultrasound (ICLUS) Project: an international effort aimed at developing a standardized imaging protocol, scoring system and computer aided solution dedicated to the analysis of LUS data from COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 patients. He is author of more than 140 peer-reviewed publications (83 international journal papers, 2 book chapters, 56 proceedings), 2 patents, 4 international best-poster awards, and many contributions to international conferences, including invited talks. He is an IEEE Senior Member, the Biomedical Acoustics Technical Program Organizer (TPO) for the Meetings of the Acoustical Society of America, a member of the Medical Ultrasound Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, and Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Federico Mento received his M.S. degree in Information and Communication Engineering (summa cum laude), and his PhD in Information and Communication Technology (summa cum laude) from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. Currently he is a PostDoc at the Ultrasound Research Lab, University of Trento. His main research interests include image processing, lung ultrasound, medical imaging, and signal processing. He published 21 papers on lung ultrasound imaging in international journals (IEEE TUFFC, IEEE TMI, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Intensive Care Medicine). He served as a reviewer for international journals (among which, IEEE TUFFC, ERJ Open, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Scientific Reports).

Xiaoming Zhang is a Professor of Radiology at Mayo Clinic, USA. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1990, respectively. He has developed novel ultrasound elastography techniques including lung ultrasound surface wave elastography. These techniques can assess tissue diseases in a safe, noninvasive, quantitative, and cost-effective way. He has conducted multiple clinical studies using his techniques in a variety of fields including skin fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, glaucoma, carpal tunnel syndrome, kidney injury, and erectile dysfunction.

Frank Wolfram received PhD degree from the medical faculty of the Schiller University Jena in 2016. The area of research is related to pulmonary application of therapeutic Ultrasound using one lung filling as well as lung related safety. He is section leader of the German Society of Ultrasound (DEGUM), scientific board member of the European Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (UIM) and recently Project Leader of the European Ultrasound Federation (EFSUMB) for Sonography related bio-effects on Lung.

Douglas Miller, PhD., Research Professor Emeritus, Basic Radiological Sciences Division, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School. Professor Miller received the Ph.D. in Biological Physics (1976) from the University of Vermont with the Thesis “An Instrument for the Microscopic Observation of the Biophysical Effects of Ultrasound”. Research positions include Research Associate Professor (1986) at the University of Vermont, Staff Scientist at the Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (1991) and Research Professor at the University of Michigan, Department of Radiology (2003). Dr. Miller dedicated his career to research on non-ionizing radiation bioeffects and safety, particularly in medical ultrasound application with contrast agents and lung imaging. He served as Principal Investigator on US National Institutes of Health grants for 34 years with more than 200 peer-reviewed journal publications, 9 book chapters, co-authorship on 6 books. Professor Miller was awarded the prestigious Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine in 2006, and the William Beierwaltes Collegiate Research Professorship from the University of Michigan in 2008.

Sandra Magnoni received her BS degree in Medicine in 1996 and her doctoral degree in Anesthesia and Intensive Care in 2003. She worked for a post doctorate period (2002-2004) at the Centre for Neuroscience Research, University of Edinburgh (UK) and as a visiting scholar (2012) at the Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis (USA). She works as supervisor for under and post graduate medical students and as post doctoral supervisor. She is a senior member of the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care (SIAARTI) and of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). She is editorial board member of “Journal of Neurotrauma” and “Frontiers in Neurology”.
She is a senior Intensive Care physician with specific multi-year experience in the management of the critically ill patients with acute brain injury, multi-organ and respiratory failure. Since 2018 she works in Trento, at the local Hospital and Trauma Center S. Chiara, after a long working experience at the University Hospital IRCCS Policlinico in Milan. Her scientific interests have been focusing on clinical and translational research in acute brain injury, cerebral multimodal monitoring and brain and lung image analysis in the critically ill patients. She is authors of more than 50 peer reviewed publications in high impact journals, including Science (in 2008) and Science Translational Medicine (2021).

Davide Fontanarosa was awarded his PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) with a thesis on: “Evaluation of speed of sound aberration and correction for ultrasound guided radiation therapy”. Presently, he works as Associate Professor in the School of Clinical Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia). Previously he worked as Senior Scientist at Maastro Clinic (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and at Philips Research (Eindhoven, the Netherlands). His major fields of research are: artificial intelligence for automatic interpretation of ultrasound imaging; image guidance in radiotherapy; minimally invasive surgery and orthopaedics (in particular using quantitative ultrasound imaging); advanced radiotherapy treatment planning and adaptation strategies. Associate Professor Fontanarosa is currently supervising twenty PhD students and one MPhil; he is the Unit coordinator for the Honours students in five different disciplines cross faculty and he teaches Physics of Ultrasound in the Physics of Medical Imaging Unit. He is the inventor of 9 patents, and authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications, one book and 6 book chapters.

Tiziano Perrone received his Degree in Medicine and Surgery and Specialty in Internal Medicine (cum laude) respectively in 2004 and 2009 from the University of Pavia (Italy). In 2012 he obtained a PhD degree in Internal Medicine and Life Sciences from the University of Pavia (Italy). He graduated in clinical ultrasound, vascular ultrasound and emergency ultrasound in 2007, 2008 and 2009 respectively. After the resident period he worked as Emergency Doctor (2009-2010) then as Doctor in the Internal Medicine Department where he was chief of the Internal Ultrasound Service (2010-2021) in San Matteo Hospital of Pavia (Italy). Since 2016 he is the referent for the Ultrasound Bed-Side school of SIMI (Italian Society of Internal Medicine). Since May 2021, he is responsible of the Emergency Medicine Ward of the Emergency Center at Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital, Bergamo (Italy). He has been a member of SIMI Regional Lombardy Council form 2018 until 2021 and organized some national congress on various internal medicine themes. He is a member of SIUMB and SIMI and councillor of the Scientific Committee of AdET. He published 38 publications indexed in Scopus which received 765 citations.

Gianmarco Pinton, was born in Milan, Italy, in 1979. Between 2001 and 2007 he received a B.S. in Physics, a B.S.E, in Biomedical Engineering, and M.S. in Mathematics, and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, all from Duke University, Durham, NC. He was a research scientist for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Institut d’Alembert, Sorobonne Universite. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. His current research interests are in ultrasound and super-resolution imaging, nonlinear and shock wave propagation, and neuromodulation.

Marie Muller is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in Physics from the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France in 2002, and her Ph.D in Physical Acoustics from the University of Paris, France in 2006. After a postdoctorate at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, she returned to Paris, as an Assistant Professor with the Institut Langevin. In 2014, she moved to North Carolina and joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NCSU. She is also an associate Faculty with the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NCSU. Dr. Muller has pioneered the use of ultrasound multiple scattering to characterize the lung parenchyma. Her work has been recognized with several awards, including the prestigious Galien Medstartup Award in 2020, in collaboration with E-scopics, the ICU Early Career Award, the Young Investigator Award from the French Society of Acoustics, the PhD thesis award from the French Society of Biological and Medical Engineering and IEEE France Section, the Prize for a Young Parisian female researcher from the City of Paris, and the Stephens award at the International Congress of Ultrasonics. She is a member of IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, and of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. She is also a founding member and member of the board of the International Bone Ultrasound Society.

Francesco Feletti is an Italian-certified Radiologist and Biomedical Engineering PhD graduate. He obtained the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor. He practices at the civil Hospital of Ravenna and holds the specific position (Incarico Qualificato) in "Integrated Osteo-articular Diagnosis" at the Local Health Authority of Romagna (Ausl Romagna). He is also a member of the local Research and Innovation Board. His responsibilities include developing diagnostic assistance systems and interventional diagnostic protocols in the emergency setting, and ultrasound-guided interventional procedures. Dr Feletti is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Ferrara. He is a lecturer on the integrated Advanced Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques in Radiology teaching module involving Body MR, part of the Master's Degree in Medicine and Surgery course. He has also been co-editor of four special issues, editor of 36 scientific papers, 23 chapters of scientific books, and three books, including Thoracic Ultrasound and Integrated Imaging, Springer, 2020.

Nicole M. Duggan, MD. Dr. Duggan received her BA degree at Scripps College in Molecular Biology, and her medical degree at the University of Washington School of Medicine. During medical school she was awarded several research fellowships including from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Her research fellowship was spent at Massachusetts Institute of Technology investigating cellularized devices for healing acute traumatic injuries. Dr. Duggan completed residency training in Emergency Medicine as well as Fellowship training in Emergency Ultrasound at the Harvard University affiliated Brigham and Women’s/Massachusetts General Hospitals, and subsequently joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as the director of research for the Emergency Ultrasound Division. Dr. Duggan’s work focused on creating machine learning models to automate point-of-care ultrasound use in acute care settings. Lung ultrasound is a cornerstone of her clinical research, in particular automating lung ultrasound interpretation to guide clinical decision-making and therapies.

Dr. Egan obtained his MD at the University of Toronto, Canada. After a rotating internship, he served as a medical officer and flight surgeon in the Canadian Armed Forces. He returned to Toronto for training in genera and cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. During his residency, he performed research with Dr. Joel Cooper, and was present at the world’s first successful single lung transplant. After serving as Instructor of Surgery and as Washington University’s first thoracic transplant fellow, Dr. Egan began his career as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. He started UNC’s lung transplant program, and supervised a translational research lab, investigating the possibility of recovering lungs hours after death for transplant, and ischemia-reperfusion injury. In 2007, he stopped operating due to a neurologic disability. He began to work for a UNC Translational Research Institute, where he met Dr. Marie Muller, who wanted to use lung tissue to study quantitative lung ultrasound. This partnership has shown the utility of ultrasound multiple scattering to determine severity of pulmonary edema, pulmonary fibrosis, and how to localize pulmonary nodules.

Jonathan Mamou graduated in 2000 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France. In January 2001, he began his graduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in May 2002 and 2005, respectively. He previously was the Associate Research Director of the F. L. Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering at Riverside Research in New York, NY. He currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Radiology of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, NY. Dr. Mamou also is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of New York University. His fields of interest include theoretical aspects of ultrasound scattering, ultrasonic medical imaging, quantitative acoustic microscopy, ultrasound contrast agents, and biomedical image processing. Dr. Mamou is a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), a Senior member of IEEE, and a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He is coeditor of the book “Quantitative Ultrasound in Soft Tissues” published by Springer, in 2013. He served as the Chair of the AIUM High-Frequency Clinical and Preclinical Imaging Community of Practice. He is an Associate Editor of Ultrasonic Imaging and the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and a reviewer for numerous journals.

Riccardo Inchingolo is Adjunct Professor at Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Italy. He received his bachelor’s, postgraduate in Respiratory Diseases’, and PhD in General and Clinical Microbiology degrees from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, in 2006, 2011, and 2015, respectively. He is certified as Expert Trainer in Medical Simulation from 2020 and received European Spirometry Driving Licence in 2014 and 2021. He achieved the National Scientific qualification as associate in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of 06/D1 - Cardiovascular and Respiratory diseases in 2022. The main research areas are: basic knowledge, clinical application, experimental trials of lung ultrasound in respiratory diseases and medical education with simulation systems. He is member of the National Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Pneumology / Italian Respiratory Society from 2019 and member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Thoracic Ultrasound - AdET from 2015. He is Associate Editor in Frontiers Respiratory Pharmacology, Review Editor in Frontiers Critical Care Anesthesiology, Topical Advisory Panel Member of Antibiotics journal and Topical Advisory Panel Member of Biomedicines journal.